Re: Record crowd : Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:01 pm  

London FC Fan wrote:

What a night! Don't know if I had any fingernails left by the end.
And what a player Charlie Stone was....

Great player, Fev lad and Fev fan, he won the 83 challenge cup for Fev as well

Re: Record crowd : Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:23 am  

gingdong wrote:

Great player, Fev lad and Fev fan, he won the 83 challenge cup for Fev as well

You're mistaken Richard 'Charlie' Stone wasn't playing for Fev then, he played for Hull until 1985. Good solid pro.
You're thinking of Hobbs

Re: Record crowd : Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:42 am  

knockersbumpMKII wrote:

You're mistaken Richard 'Charlie' Stone wasn't playing for Fev then, he played for Hull until 1985. Good solid pro.
You're thinking of Hobbs

Think he's referring to Charlie Stone giving the penalty away which cost us the game.

Re: Record crowd : Thu Oct 23, 2014 6:23 pm  

westdock boy in oz wrote:

Think he's referring to Charlie Stone giving the penalty away which cost us the game.

the idiot in charge gave them a penalty..yeah..I guess. But we were a shambles, too cocky and didn't play to our strengths..we wuz shocking and should have walked it..story of the 80s. Bunting had all that talent and couldn't get them to win the big games when it mattered, he was a bang average coach in my humble opinion. Had we had a Roy Francis in charge we'd have won everything during that spell.

Re: Record crowd : Fri Oct 24, 2014 8:27 pm  

R.B.A wrote:

That 1997 Derby at the Boulevard was a great occasion. Got there early to watch the Academy match (you beat Bradford if memory serves). No sign of the big crowd to come. Had a players family pass at the time so let myself out of the ground to have a few beers in the Supporters Club with friends before the game. When we emerged there were police on horsesback sorting the queues to the Airlie Street turnstiles!
Great crowd, great atmosphere and no trouble.

(We would have won if Gary Atkins had any pace).

Never mind Gary Atkins if Paul Rouse hadnt had butter on his fingers you may have sneaked a win!

Great day and the first real sign that we were on the up after a few barren years mid 90's crowd wise - we even had to queue for a beer at half time in the leagues bar! Unheard of since 1991.